A married woman may dream of getting a divorce either when there is a momentary wish to do so or when she is “divorcing” herself from a particular situation or person. When a single woman – or one who is engaged; dreams of divorce, she may be warning herself against a certain relationship.

To dream of one of your friends getting a divorce suggests there is something for the dreamer to gain from this action. As always, the dreamer must ponder what the characters represent. One should also consider whether one of the marital partners who is getting divorced is of romantic interest to the dreamer. If so, the dreamer may be hoping the couple will break up so that she will have a chance.

Whether married or single, a woman’s dreams of divorce sometimes have little to do with love or marriage. Instead divorce dreams may refer to a wish to separate from a job, or from some problematical aspect of life that is no longer productive. The dreamer needs to contemplate the symbols of the dream carefully in order to decipher the meaning that applies.

Listen well to your dreams. They are a barometer of your inner emotions. They will tell you where your heart is at the moment. Only you will know if it is a passing feeling or an ongoing state that requires action. If you are troubled with nightmares about your mate that become worse or more frequent, seek professional counseling. You will be more able to judge whether your issues can be resolved or whether you and your spouse are better off apart.

- Even Sigmund Freud didn’t believe this completely – he said some war dreams were fear enactments.

All Men’s Dreams are Sexual:

- A classic study by Calvin Hall and Robert Van de Castle, at Miami’s Institute of Dream Research, found that only 12 per cent of male dreams have sexual content.

Remembering your Dreams is always Helpful:

- A study of Holocaust survivors by psychologist Peretz Lavie of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology found that those who didn’t remember dreams about the horrors they experienced were happier than those who did.

Dreams cannot Predict Illness:

- Michigan State psychiatrist Robert Smith found that among 49 patients about to undergo heart catheterization men who dreamed of death and women who dreamed of separation became sicker than those who did not. In an upcoming book researcher Oliver Sacks writes that people with multiple sclerosis, strokes or neurological injuries sometimes dream of improvement before it comes. Psychologist Roseanne Armitage has found that EEGs taken during sleep may predict the onset of depression.

We spend a third of our lives in the vast, unfathomable secret world of sleep.

With the help of science, we are at long last discovering what this world is made of, and what our dreams can do for us!!

We all dream, even if we don’t remember our dreams. Our most fertile dreaming occurs in REM sleep. We enter REM about 90 minutes after nodding off, and it occurs more frequently and for longer periods as sleep progresses.

We spend two of every 24 hours dreaming, which adds up to more than five years of our lives spent dreaming.

About half of us are lucky to remember one dream a month, says psychologist Rosanne Armitage of the University of Texas. The rest of us remember as many as four dreams a week. Researchers agree we tend to remember vivid dreams more easily than boring dreams. Sleep and dream researcher Ernest Hartmann has found that some people have what he calls thin boundaries. Such dreamers are trusting and vulnerable people, they have more nightmares and remember their dreams better than those more orderly and rigid – with thick boundaries.

To remember your dreams more easily, be like The Little Engine That Could and tell yourself that you can. “Virtually everyone improves with practice”, says Stanford University sleep researcher LaBerge. Then sleep as long as you can (dream periods get longer and closer together with time).

When you wake up, try not to move until you remember the dream – that helps trick the mind into believing the body is still in REM paralysis. Fix on a key image to help you remember. Keep a journal by your bed to write down your dreams.

Of course dreams of getting married are sometimes especially for a young girl, simple wish-fulfillment dreams. For instance the unmarried woman, who dreams of being given a wedding ring or of finding one, is usually expressing a wish for the relationship it represents.

Because the wedding ring symbolizes union, the unbroken wholeness and continuity of a loving relationship, its appearance in a dream is always significant. The gold, from which the majority of rings are made, adds to the symbolism of the circle the further meaning of the precious metal – durability and unchangeability.

People in different cultures have traditional ideas about the meanings of certain dream images. In Thailand the dream of finding a diamond – whether loose or in a ring – is a sign that something nice will happen soon.

Married women who dream of losing their wedding rings or finding that they are somehow deformed or broken often refer to a current married condition in their relationship with their mates.

To dream of finding a lost ring may represent the rediscovery of something valuable in a relationship.

Just as dreaming of getting married when you are planning to do so refers to the significant life event about to take place – to dream of getting married when you are not planning to do so refer to a significant ‘inner’ event taking place. When such a woman awakens from a dream of getting married she may find herself less depressed or less anxious or more at ease, or she may feel outright joyful – all for good reason.

According to the Jungian view, the bride and groom in a wedding dream symbolize different parts of the dreamer. Their wedding ceremony depicts the union of these opposite elements.